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- Gerard Malanga
- Gerard Malanga is a photographer, poet, film-maker, multi-media artist and photo archivist. From 1963 until 1970 he was Andy Warhol’s assistant at the Factory and contributed to Interview magazine. He is the co-author with Victor Bockris of Uptight, the definitive Velvet Underground biography.
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- Screen Tests Portraits Nudes
- Gerard Malanga made his reputation as co-founder of Andy Warhol’s Factory. His career as a photographer began there between 1964 and 1966, when he and Warhol made screen tests of 300 people. Later on, he stunned the world with portraits of Iggy Pop, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tennessee Williams, Alice Cooper, Mick Jagger, Lou Reed and William S. Burroughs. These photographs take the viewer back to Pop Culture and the Beat Generation. Still later, throughout the eighties and well into the nineties, Malanga gave the reader a taste of the magical relation of femininity and charm as embodied in his nudes.
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- Just like a shadow
- Supporter of intimate and experimental cinematographical screenwriting for the Village Voice since its creation, co-founder of the Anthology Film Archive, at age 78 Jonas Mekas still doesn't care about Hollywood. Actor or witness of all the New York avant-gardes, where this Lithuanian refugee fled during the war. Having spent all his life with his Bolex camera, he never ceased writing a long intimate film from which these photograms were extracted. Jonas Mekas, himself, affirms that cinema »is just a photogram, one single photogram!« All along the book we encounter a great many of his friends such as Andy Warhol, Nam June Paik, Robert Frank, the Kennedy family, Salvador Dali, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Nico, Gerard Malanga, Allen Ginsberg, Henri Langlois, Stan Brakhage, Jack Kerouac, Lou Reed, Miles Davis and many others, without omitting all those moments, happy or not, which he captured with his camera and his malicious eye.
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- Patrick Remy
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Patrick Remy is a photo critic who is currently working for magazines such as Vogue, AD, Journal des Arts after having contributed articles to Jalouse USA, Numéro, L’Officiel, Art Pres, Caméra Internationale, Mixte, l’Oeil.
He has curated many photo exhibitions such as the Fashion Photography of Kobé and Fashion Photography Today in Melbourne as well as working as an art consultant for many clients such Le Printemps and fashion venues like Gucci group. As freelance editor, he published several books: Fashion images de Mode 1 and 2, Strip, Paradise, Desire, Sensation and a monography of Hiromix, Massimo Vitali, Max Pam, Gerard Malanga, Jonas Mekas and Bettina Rheims at Steidl. Today, he is living in Paris and considered one of the leading french photo experts. He is the responsable of the Steidl french office.
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- About Steidl
- Gerhard Steidl began working as a designer and printer in 1967, when he was just 17 years old. On the occasion of an Andy Warhol exhibition in Cologne the following year, Steidl approached the artist. Fascinated by the intensity and saturated colours of Warhol’s work, Steidl asked about his silkscreen printing technique. Giddily he returned to his hometown of Göttingen, two hours north of Frankfurt, and set up his first printing studio, following the principle of “learning by doing”.